I just received an email contribution from an interested party,
which included the PILA-7008 LD audio in 48 kz PCM with
some DYRL English subtitles.
Here's how 2015 is starting off for the DYRL HD Theatrical Restoration project!
For the last month, I was just so busy working on another couple of
different projects and then getting ready to go visit
my mom for January that I put this project on hold.
I did get some stuff done for this project, but
I'm not re-starting this project until I get back
home in February.
Audio update:
I, too, was able to capture the audio for all of my
DYRL and Flashback 2012 LDs in
44.1 khz in wav PCM and FLAC. But, I wasn't able to
get a 48 khz version because my M-Audio Audiophile
USB stopped working. That audio file would be just what
I need for this project!
I will have to buy another Audiophile box to
capture the RCA digital audio from my other LDs
because it's the only capture box that has RCA digital audio in.
The power light on the Audiophile box is on, but the
Audiophile box is no longer recognized by Windows 8.1
or MacOSX 10 even after uninstalling and reinstalling different drivers.
The Hauppauge USB capture box only has optical in, the Intensity Shuttle
Thunderbolt and El Gato Game Capture HD only have
stereo in or hdmi audio in.
Alternatively, the Crystalio Video processor can take in the HLD-X0 RCA digital
output and then convert that audio optical for the Hauppauge box. That might
work instead of buying another Audiophile USB box. I would then need to set
up and test the Hauppauge capture box on my Windows laptop and MacBook.
I have to sort out all the different languages that DYRL have
been dubbed in to make sure that the audio files match the BD
video length. I didn't hear back from the guy on youtube who
uploaded the partial Italian DYRL dub.
Would anybody be able synchronize the DYRL audio drama LP to the BD
video? It's pretty tricky because the LP did not play at a constant rate.
Thanks!
Subtitles update:
I already have a version of the English DYRL subtitles that have
been made by Gubaba of Galaxy Network Subs & Macross World
and updated recently by HannouHeiki of Macross World for his own DYRL BD.
I'll include any other subtitles I find as part of the initial bundle.
I was able to find a few more different subbed languages of DYRL, but I haven't
checked if the subtitles are sync'ed to the BD.
Spanish (Sync'ed by HannouHeiki), Polish, Turkish and English.
I have not been able to download the VOSTFR French DYRL subs,
but the subs are hard coded into the avi file anyways.
Video update:
The first 1 minute and 30 seconds and the ending credits of the theatrical
DYRL are already on the BD, so it's just the 2 seconds of censored scenes that need work.
There might be more small changes or fixes in the DYRL BD,
but I haven't done
a close analysis of the differences with the DYRL DVD.
For video editing, I have Sony Vegas Pro 13 with the Neat Video plug-in.
I made two up-scaled 1080p videos of the remastered DYRL DVD.
I made a remastered DYRL DVD up-scale video using a couple of
the Video Enhancer's Avisynth plug-ins and then one up-scaled video without
using any video noise removal . In Sony Vegas, I can compare
both videos to see if the Neat Video plug-in was worth the money spent.
Then I still have to colour-correct the up-scaled non-censored scenes.
I have all sorts of different colour-correction software to work with, such as
the free Davinci resolve and AAV Colorlab. I think I'll start by taking
some snapshots of the BD video and then get the color and brightness
histograms to adjust the DYRL DVD up-scaled censored scenes.
The first version of this project is just going to be an .mkv with
bundled separate audio and subtitle files with some extras.
Then I'll figure out how to do a bluray disc menu.
So, that's it for now until the beginning of February.